Elizabeth Edwards Quotes

I was a skeleton compared to what I used to be, but it didn't matter. Nothing really mattered except remaining unbroken.

Do you have to make me feel like there's nothing left of me? You can take everything I have, you can break everything I am, like I am made of glass, like I am made of paper.Go on and try to tear me down I will be rising from the ground like a Skyscraper.

My spirits rose as I went deeper; into the forest; but I could not regain my former elasticity of mind. I found cheerfulness to be like life itself - not to be created by any argument. Afterwards I learned, that the best way to manage some kinds of pain fill thoughts, is to dare them to do their worst; to let them lie and gnaw at your heart till they are tired; and you find you still have a residue of life they cannot kill. So, better and worse, I went on, till I came to a little clearing in the forest.

People can live through hardship, but from hard feelings they perish.

We all survive more than we think we can.

I just think that there are those people that their resolve is strengthened by what it is that's keeping them down, and there are some people that will buckle under it. You never know which one is which until you get into the eighth or ninth round of the fight.

Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men!

The punches that don't knock you out are the ones you feel the most.

I need to be someone who didn't break because of what I've been through.

Sometimes, I have to beat myself first in order to beat the other guy. And that sucks. I'm not gonna lie. But that's me.

Patience is the strongest of strong drinks; for it kills the giant despair.

Even when our heart aches, we summon the strength that maybe we didn't even know we had, and we carry on; we finish the race.

I’d always enjoyed life, and I knew I would again. But I was going to have to slog through a lot of bad patches to get there

It isn't for the moment you are struck that you need courage, but for that long uphill climb back to sanity and faith and security.

No matter how painful something is, you have to take it. I saw that in both my parents.

The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

Yes, I now that you feel you are not strong enough. That's what the enemy thinks too. But we're gonna fool them.

No matter what kind of challenges or difficulties or painful situations you go through in your life, we all have something deep within us that we can reach down and find the inner strength to get through them.

Hard times don't create heroes. It is during the hard times when the 'hero' within us is revealed.

Tough times don't last, tough people do, remember?

Whatever you're going through in your life, don't ever give up.

New York is a place that can grind you down and spit you out. A true New Yorker doesn't get ground down - he gets polished.

Tough times never last, but tough people do.